Odd Stuff (Part 3)

Side kvetch: what is it with pickup trucks and not parking within the lines?

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I believe that lowering the road is a better option!

Freedumb!

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Oh! I know this one. It’s “defensive parking”. If you don’t park like that, some “shit box” will park way too close and you’ll have to actually drive carefully to get out (part of my response is cribbed from an answer I saw to that exact question a few years back).

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That or they’d have to turn their neck so far to see the lines 6 feet beneath them in their rearview mirrors that they might have issues getting their necks back to neutral?

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Tik Tok will kill us all!

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I’ll stick with my heavy whipping cream and Jolt, thanks.

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This is not a new thing. My cousins in South Carolina were drinking this degenerate cocktail back in the 60s and 70s.

Everyone knows that the only correct holiday drink is a nice hot Lemon Coke

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Oh noes!11!11!

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“Just don’t boil it for too long; you’re not making a syrup”

Ha! It’s just sugar water afterall.

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Matthew Broderick GIF

The truck equivalent of manspreading? :thinking:

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I have a large truck. If I can’t park within the lines I’ll park somewhere else.

It can be a but tricky to line up though if the parking spot angle is a bit off or the driveway is narrow. But you can do a little backsie-forthsie action to get lined up. Unless you have too much pride.

Don’t know what this guy’s issue is though.

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Well there you go. No 'Murican man is going to do a little backsie-forthsie to park a truck. You got to get right in there. There’s no backing out! Pretty sure John Wayne said that.

Can never have too much pride!

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The evolution of Discovery Channel has basically been science :arrow_right: popular science :arrow_right: junk science.

Shark Week has followed a similar trajectory originally intending to be educational and promote conservation to becoming little more than junk science (including a megalodon “documentary”), and other shark-themed “entertainment” (like a heavily promoted “race” between Michael Phelps and a great white which ended up being a CG simulation).

I guess you could say that Shark Week and the Discovery Channel :sunglasses::pinching_hand::pleading_face::dark_sunglasses::pinching_hand: have long since jumped the shark.

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The trajectory of MSN is so weird. From an AOL-like dialup ISP, to search engine, to news aggregator, to AI-automated tabloid clickbait.

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Hospital patient arrested for allegedly switching off neighbor’s ‘noisy’ oxygen machine

https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/02/europe/woman-arrest-neighbor-oxygen-machine-scli-intl/index.html

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